Organizing Ecologies of Complex Innovation

Organization Science - Tập 22 Số 5 - Trang 1214-1223 - 2011
Deborah Dougherty1, Danielle D. Dunne2
1Management and Global Business Department, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102
2School of Management, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 13902

Tóm tắt

For many sectors like health care, financial services, or renewable energy, new products and services are generated by an ecology of business firms, nonprofit foundations, public institutions, and other agents. Knowledge to innovate is dispersed across ecologies, so no single firm or small group of firms can innovate alone. Moreover, many new products and services in ecologies such as health care or energy are complex or comprise many parts with unknown interactions. New products, knowledge, business models, and applications all emerge unpredictably over considerable time periods, as various agents in the ecologies of innovation interact with and react to the actions of others. However, the existing organizing structure in these ecologies stifles emergence and precludes much innovation, simply because theory and practice do not adequately address how to organize for complex innovation. We develop a preliminary model for organizing ecologies of complex innovation. We suggest that innovations can continually emerge productively if people work locally in ecologies to set and solve problems of orchestrating knowledge capabilities across the ecology, strategizing across the ecology to create new businesses and applications, and developing public policies to embrace ambiguity. Using examples from biopharmaceuticals and alternative energy, we develop specific organizing ideas that can be examined and elaborated upon. This new direction for organization science integrates existing ideas around a new kind of organizing and shows how organization science can add real value in addressing major challenges of public welfare and safety in the 21st century.

Từ khóa


Tài liệu tham khảo

Adams M. Comparative Performance Assessment Study (CPAS) results. (2004) Presentation, Product Development and Management Association Conference on Identifying the Drivers of New Product Development SuccessMarch 18(PDMA, Mount Laurel, NJ)

10.1287/orsc.1090.0481

Afuah A., 2003, Innovation Management: Strategies, Implementation, and Profits

10.1287/orsc.10.3.216

10.1287/orsc.1090.0511

10.1287/orsc.14.3.312.15162

10.1038/4551181a

Brown S. L., 1998, Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos

Burns T., 1961, The Management of Innovation

10.1287/orsc.1040.0094

10.1287/orsc.1090.0442

10.1287/orsc.1040.0095

Clark K. B., 1991, Product Development Performance: Strategy, Organization, and Management in the World Auto Industry

10.1016/0048-7333(82)90016-6

10.1287/orsc.3.2.179

10.1287/orsc.12.5.612.10096

10.1177/1476127004040914

10.4135/9781848608030.n21

10.1287/orsc.3.2.230

Engardio P., 2008, Bus. Week

10.1142/S136391960700162X

10.1016/j.respol.2010.07.003

10.1287/orsc.7.3.255

Gawer A., 2008, Sloan Management Rev., 49, 28

Hughes T. P., 1983, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930, 10.56021/9780801828737

Jain S. Pragmatic agency in technology standards evolution: The case of ethernet. (2011) . Working paper, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Jelinek M., 1990, The Innovation Marathon: Lessons from High Technology Firms

Jervis R., 2010, USA Today

Leifer R., 2000, Radical Innovation: How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts

Leonard-Barton D., 1995, Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation

10.1177/0170840608101478

10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.04.006

10.2307/41165841

10.1287/orsc.1090.0472

10.1016/S0737-6782(01)00070-4

Pisano G. P., 2006, Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech

10.5465/amj.2007.25525647

10.1145/1629175.1629191

10.2307/41166320

Rosenberg N., 1980, Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics

Sammut S. M., 2005, The Business of Healthcare Innovation, 190, 10.1017/CBO9780511488672.005

Sanderson S. W., 1997, Managing Product Families

Schon D., 1983, The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action

Schoofs M., 2010, Wall Street Journal, A8

Schumpeter J. A., 1942, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Simon H., 1996, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3

10.1002/smj.4250160606

Stokes D. E., 1997, Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation

Tidd J., 2005, Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change, 3

Totty M., 2010, Wall Street Journal, R1

Tushman M. L., 1992, Research in Organizational Behavior, 14, 311

Van de Ven A. H., 1999, The Innovation Journey

Wheelright S. C., 1992, Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality

10.1056/NEJMsb055203

Thông tin
Thông tin xuất bản

Organization Science

Tập 22 Số 5

1214-1223

Thông tin tác giả